86,400 in a day....

I heard the song "Live Like We're Dying" today by The Script. Basically the songs tells us how little time we have in a day reminding us "We only got 86, 400 seconds in a day to Turn it all around or to throw it all away...".
Even though I have heard this song a hundred times it got me thinking about.....well, thinking.
Why do we do that so much? Of course we have to think about situations in life but why do we let our thinking turn into over thinking and worrying? Why do we think about things so much that we create more questions which leads to more thinking and more questions and more thinking and so on...and just when we figure out the answer or the solution we decide to think about it some more just to be sure we are right in our thinking. It is a never ending process that when you look at the big picture you see it really gets you nowhere except for stuck.
A few examples:
You are house shopping, you want a 3br 2b yellow house with a white picket fence for $200,000. Guess what, your realtor shows you the perfect 3br 2b yellow house with a white picket fence for $200,000 and tells you they are eager to sell and will probably take a lower offer! Perfect huh?! Just want you wanted but...maybe it isn't...I mean why are they so eager to sell? Are they tired of looking at the color yellow; OMG what if you get tired of looking at yellow and then you have to paint the house and that can be so expensive and what if you cannot afford it and you start to not like your new house because you hate the yellow so bad? Or what if one day you decide to start that home business you have been talking about doing for 20 years and never have, but what if you do and you need a fourth bedroom - then you will have to move again...hmmmm you better think about this some more. So you do, and you either decide to stop questioning and get the house for $192,000 and cross bridges as you come to them or you let someone else get it and you not much longer later realize you should not have let that go when you are settling for the green house across the street from the yellow house that you payed $200,000 for!
Another example:
You have a wedding to attend, your ex will be there with their new "love" you have to lose weight, hide your greys, and find the perfect thing to wear. So you do all of this then the day of the wedding you start thinking...hmmm what if the wind is blowing, the slit in my dress opens a little and my girdle shows--but who cares if my girdle shows what if the new girl he is with sees it and she thinks I have lost weight, I am sucking in and wearing a girdle all because they are there...I mean that is the truth but what if she figures that out! Even worse what if we get there at the same time and since we are both going to want to be seated on the grooms side the usher sits us next to one another...oh no, another horrible thing to think about - what if we are next to each other wearing the same dress except for hers is a 4 and mine is a 6 and I know this because I heard the lady behind us tell her friend when she informed me and the bimbo that our tags were out. Wow - this is not even my wedding day and I am too stressed out - Should I even go?! So either you go to the wedding looking like a million bucks and see the ex with the new love and smile and wave as you see him being seated before her and you remember his lack of manners (one of the million reasons you are not with him) and your fake smile turns into a real one and grows bigger as you wave while you notice you have just been seated next to the grooms oh so handsome cousin OR you don't go and then hear later from those who did how wonderful the wedding was and how you should be so happy you are no longer with that jerk he was hitting on every woman in sight with his girlfriend pretending to be oblivious and happy!
As far as examples, I could go on for days, but I wont--you get my point.
We need to stop thinking so much and just live in the moment and not try to figure out what's in store for the next 60 seconds after this one is over. If we don't we may find our self in an overpriced house or missing out on one of our friends most special days all because we thought about it too much.
Just stop as that song says we only have 86,400 seconds in a day. They will happen whether they happen like we plan or not so just enjoy them and if you have something great in life happening right now cease the moment to enjoy it, not to stop it!



xoxo,
Faith